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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 69 points 1 year ago

Depressing actually. Future generations will look up and see shitty satellites.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

That seems more than a tad hyperbolic. My wife and I enjoy sitting in our backyard next to the fire and stargazing every now and again. We'll catch maybe a dozen satellites on a good night, during the couple hours post-sunset when you can actually catch the sunlight glinting off them. By about 2 hours after sunset, the number of objects that are both high enough to still reflect sunlight and large enough to see is pretty tiny.

I see vastly more planes with blinking lights and bright landing lights than I do satellites, and this has been the case for decades, but somehow that's not a threat to our enjoyment of the night sky?

[-] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Every light adds to light pollution though and makes it more difficult for earth-based astronomy. And that's excluding events where satilites pass through observations.

Extremely annoying, but inevitable I guess.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they will have de-orbited by then and we would have found a better solution. But then we may not have too many generations left anyway.

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